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One of my favorite essays on #masculinity in general, and particularly the connection between #toxicmasculinity and authoritarianism (by @rechelon): http://humaniterations.net/2017/05/23/authoritarians-and-ideology-of-love/
@cstanhope @rechelon Yeah, that portion in particular definitely contextualized a whole range of thoughts and feelings in an earlier phase of my life in a new way.
@mattcropp @rechelon I think I'm going to have to chew on that a while and come back to it. This passage sticks with me: "Patriarchy shoves young boys into a kind of brutal competition and the reward it promises at the end of the tunnel is the thing it takes away: empathy, connection, and kindness. We are told that if we can harden ourselves, learn to wall ourselves off further, we might one day stand on the top of a pile of corpses in some gladiatorial arena and be presented with love."